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Rector's Annual Report for 2014 "We thought that we had the answets, it was Ehe questions we had wrong." -v2 2014 beqan with our noontime cefebration of The Holy Eucharist with "a public Service of Heating" observrng the feast of The Hofy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, a liturgicaf commemoration begun at the Council of Tours in 567 to counceract pagan festivities connected with the beginning of the new year. I w.rote in our .Love of Mike: "New Year's opportunities inc-lude asking inportant questions such as 'Who am I anyway' really?' and 'Why am I the way I am?' We are caffed to exanine our befiefs and ways they night tuEn into action. Resolutions are fess inportant than resu-lts, and the calL of God is for us to go and do the work of the kjnnrlom c,ar-h and 6>y,e'rv rlart Gad aiwes rts to live and fove." ^ ttt9vvrl Here are some of the days in 2OL4 on which I arn confident we dj-d the work of God's kingdom: On January 11-, Ray Urwin, D.M.A., became our Minister of Musrc fo] Iowing rhe fine interim miniscry of Bob Glant to conE.inue our exemplary musical heritage wel] nurtured during my time here by Burton Karson, Tim Getz and Stephen Black. Ray is the composer of two popular hymns in The Hymnal 1982: 5169 - "My flesh is food indeed," and *6'1 9 - "SureJy it is God who saves me." On April 11, I ioined oLher Episcopalians at saint Andrew's Plesbyterian church u..o"" the bay to hear Ray play their "second Friday Frenzy ,' Ray is now one of fifteen national leaders appointed to a new a.1n.rrc.r^1- i ona I Sono Task Eorce of The Episcopal- Church. vvrrY!!Yee4v on January 25 I was privileged both as Dean of our coasta] orange County area and as neighboring rector to be one of the leaders of worship as The Rev'd Philip Devau] was instituted as the rector of Saint John the Divine Episcopal Church in Costa Mesa' SOUPeT/Super Bowl Sunday, February 2, brought our forty-seventy Annuaf Parish Meeting. we did necessary business and creative ideas were presented for increasing community awareness' attendance and Page 1 of 12

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Rector's Annual Report for 2014

"We thought that we had the answets,it was Ehe questions we had wrong." -v2

2014 beqan with our noontime cefebration of The Holy Eucharist with"a public Service of Heating" observrng the feast of The Hofy Name

of Our Lord Jesus Christ, a liturgicaf commemoration begun at theCouncil of Tours in 567 to counceract pagan festivities connectedwith the beginning of the new year. I w.rote in our .Love of Mike:

"New Year's opportunities inc-lude asking inportant questionssuch as 'Who am I anyway' really?' and 'Why am I the way I am?'

We are caffed to exanine our befiefs and ways they night tuEninto action. Resolutions are fess inportant than resu-lts,and the calL of God is for us to go and do the work of thekjnnrlom c,ar-h and 6>y,e'rv rlart Gad aiwes rts to live and fove."^

ttt9vvrl

Here are some of the days in 2OL4 on which I arn confident we dj-d

the work of God's kingdom:

On January 11-, Ray Urwin, D.M.A., became our Minister of Musrcfo] Iowing rhe fine interim miniscry of Bob Glant to conE.inue ourexemplary musical heritage wel] nurtured during my time here by

Burton Karson, Tim Getz and Stephen Black. Ray is the composer oftwo popular hymns in The Hymnal 1982: 5169 - "My flesh is foodindeed," and *6'1 9 - "SureJy it is God who saves me." On April 11,

I ioined oLher Episcopalians at saint Andrew's Plesbyterian churchu..o"" the bay to hear Ray play their "second Friday Frenzy ,'

Ray is now one of fifteen national leaders appointed to a new

a.1n.rrc.r^1- i ona I Sono Task Eorce of The Episcopal- Church.vvrrY!!Yee4v

on January 25 I was privileged both as Dean of our coasta] orange

County area and as neighboring rector to be one of the leaders ofworship as The Rev'd Philip Devau] was instituted as the rector ofSaint John the Divine Episcopal Church in Costa Mesa'

SOUPeT/Super Bowl Sunday, February 2, brought our forty-seventyAnnuaf Parish Meeting. we did necessary business and creative ideaswere presented for increasing community awareness' attendance and

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revenue. Outgoing Vestry members (Lynn Headley, Joan Short, GaiIHaghjoo and Jim Pafda were thanked for their service and ministry;new Vestry members (Myrna IreIand, Don Sheetz, JuIie Jenkins,Barbara Stewart+, Matt Shaw and Tom Nicholson) were elected andwelcomed as were Delegates (Richard Zevnik, KarLene MiIler, MurryMcclaren and Steve Dulson) and Alternates (Rebecca Welch, Jim Palda'Lynn Headley and Norris Battin) to Diocesan Convention. our ParishChurch is truly blessed with so many members with considerablelcadershin abi Iifies Nar^r \/Fqf r1/ memhcr5 were commissioned at eightrvquLrJrrfy

and ten o'cl-ock worship on March 2 and joined members of our stafffor our annua] Vestry-Staff RetreaL at Saint James the GreatEpiscopal Church on Via Lido the following Sar-urday, March 8

(tfr. ai'o annj-versary of my ordination as Deacon) .

Ash Wednesday' March 5, saw the beginning of the fourth year of"Lent Madness"' a wonderfully enjoyable and engaging way for sportsfans and others farniliar with bracketology to fearn more-and-moreabout thirty-two saints each year.

{Watch for "Lent Madness" here in 2015!}

Bob Franke was our Homilist/Preacher on the First Sunday in Lent'March 9; he sang, "source of ny journey, soutce of my rest, sourceof ny worst and source of my best, Bfess, as f Inlrestle these yearsas they roll-: Touch ne and make ne whofe." Bob returned on theSecond Sunday of Advent, December 14, and gave me (and, I trust, us)

a great gift by singing one of my very favorite song-poems of Bob's:"Stir up your pow'r here in this hour, O Lotd; nake us whofe and

restore our weary sou-Is.,, The ancient collect for the Third Sunday

of Advent (BCP 2I2) has us pray, "Stir up your power' o Lord' and

with great might cone among us; ,..Let your bountifuJ grace and

nercy speediTy help and delivet us." In Lent and Advent Bob helpedus ready ourselves for Easter and Christmas.

For our wednesday evenings in Lent programs following Evening Prayerand simple, but marvelous' suppers prepared by various parishgroupsr four friends preceded me in reflecting on how our observingLent had changed through our years from "giving up something old"to "takj-ng on something new." The series was begun on March 12

by The Rev'd Fr. Jeff Hulet; a great sadness in 2014 for me was

the departure from this Parish of Jeff+ & DJ. our own Bishop Diane

Jardine Bruce told us of her journey on March 19; I^'hat a joy it isfor me that +Diane is our Bishop! Our Episcopal campus misslonerat UCI, The Rev'd Dr. Fennie Chang, told us of her Lents in Taiwan

and Toronto on March 26. On April 2 The Rev'd DI . Barbara stewarttauqht us about Lent and it's changing practices '

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What a blessing Barbara's presence and ministry has been for me andto us ! That she cel"ebrates and preaches one Sunday a month and onone Wednesday noon a month, and that she substitutes as she is ablewhen f am away, is a great gift. Her teachings and participation inour choir have benefitted us measurably. Pl-ease join me in thankingGod for The Rev'd Dr. Barbara Stewart, and in thanking her!

On two days at the end or March (2O-2I) I was bl-essed withci.rrifi.anf l.ima f ^.rFj. hcr wifh nricqrq if h:q haan mrr nrirri la.ta r^t/!lv'cJvEgllILLyP!!vItvY9gv

mento.r: The Rev'd JuIie Bryant, Rector of Transfiguration EpiscopalParish Church in Arcadia; The Rev'd Jeanette Repp, Rector of SaintPete.r's Episcopal Parish Church in San Pedro.. and The Rev,d MarthaKorienek, now Associate Rector of Saint pauf,s Episcopal parishChurch in Burlingame. We remember Martha+ with admiration/apprecaat i onla ffect ion from her ministry here 2006-2011. Julie+and Jeanette+ were very active with Berkeley Canterbury duringtheir student days at Caf when I was the campus minister there.

Keith Nel-son, Chair of Canterbury Irvine, s Board and EmeritusProfessor of History and both Religious and peace-and-Confl l ctStudies in UCI,s School, of Humanities, and The Rev,d Dr. Fennj-eChang brought Canterbury, s Spring Garden party to Saint Michael& Alr Angels on Apri-l 5. Bishop Bruce was the host and the speakerwas The Very Rev,d Mark Richardson, ph.D., president and Dean ofcDSP (church Divinity school of the pacific) which r am privilegedto continue serving as a Trustee.

On April 6, Beth Bojarski, Executive Director of Camp Stevens, wasour Homilist. Susan Caldwell cal1s Beth ..amazing,, and admires herintentional earth-friendly approaches with ministry at our 250 acreDiocesan Camp in the pine and oak forest near Ju.l- j-an. (Of course,Susan is "amazing" as our Director of Christian Education!) CorinneStover wrote "Time for Camp (Stevens),, and Imogen Kirsch, age tenand the daughter of Julie, wrote ..A Camp Stevens Refection,, in ourMay ...Love of Mike; Tom Nj-cholson wrote '.A Camp Stevens Summer isNot to Be Missed" about time there with daughters Tess and Tai-tein our September ...Love of Mike. {Look forward to our parj-shweekend at Camp Stevens with The Very Rev, d Gary Ha.lJ., Dean ofour National Cathedral, in May 2015.1

HoIy Tuesday, Tuesday in Holy Week, is always special for me.Clergy gather to renew our ordination vows. f was on my way toour cathed.ral center in Echo park when a front tire blew. Afterchanging it alongside the I-5, I was sweaty and dirty and decidedto return home. r missed a fabur-ous se.rmon by our Bishop suf f-raganMary Glasspoofi fo.rtunately it is availabte on line and f recommendit to afl !

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HoIy Week and Easter were wonderful here. I was so excited aboutEaster 2014 that I wrote two articles for our April .,.Love of Mike,"Easter changes everything!" and a response to Hans Kung's questionin On Being A Christian, "How did Christianity continue after theups and downs of HoIy tr'leek and the compJete breakdown of GoodFr iday?"

On May Day I flew to Berkeley to join friends from college daysat dinner with my Alpha Chi Rho fraternity roonmate Ken Dachman who

I see about once every twenty years because he J-ives with his familyon a kibbutz, and somet j,mes a moshav, in northern lsraef. A treatl

On Sunday morning, May 4, our Bi-shop Diocesan, The Right Rev'd JonBruno made his Episcopal visitation and confirmed Julie Jenkins'Kati Mowat, Tom Nicholson, William Akerbloom, Michaef Kiper and

Matthew Kiper. (I trust you appreciate Michaef Kiper's Eagle ScoutProject which enriches our labyrinth; I invite you to .Iook forwardt_^ M.f ih6L, Kiaart c F.:rrlp q.^ttf pro-ie.:t - nnmi nn <nnn | \rrfye! J !a9rc revqL L !vJUUL,

Don Haynes' 2Oth birthday on May 9 was we 1I -celebrated !

n'r l.\n.r :nd eaoer'l v awaited "U2charist" arrived on Saturdayvq! rvrrY

evening, May 10, thanks to Clyde Dodgte. Funding came from a belovedbut anonymous parishioner. Thanks to Michael- Blevins-Boor we

recej-ved great publicity in the Los Angefes Times' "Lj-fe & Arts"section on May 9. The Right Rev'd Diane Jardine Bruce cefebrated;The Rev'd Canon Jaime Edwards-Acton preached. The Joshua Tree,a U2 tribute band, gave us twefve songs. All- offerings collectedwere donated to the African Wefl Project's "Build a Wef l- for Bono"

campaign, certaj,nly embracing the Millenium Development Goals'Attendance was great and people presenL enjoyed a wonderfullydifferent worship experience. Jaime's prayer at the conclusionof his homily focused this event for me; he prayed:

Gracious God, give us wisdom and coutage in our faith,To enter into each daYlnot with fearnoE with anxiety in search of right answets,L--! ... +L . --,,i FtrJJU L wL Ltt L!t9utL)'

and curios itythat gives birth to questronsthat fead to new fife. Arnen.

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During a Board of Trustees meeting at CDSP, May 2I-23, I enjoyedgreat times together with (The Rt. Rev'd) Ed Konieczny who served a

Ministry Study Year here in L99I-' 92 and is now Bishop of Okfahoma;Ed was in Berkelev to recei-ve an honorarv doctorate from CDSP.

Our Summer Sundays-at-Nine morning worship began on t'4ay 25, Sundayin Memorial Day weekend, and successfully continued through August31, Sunday in Labor Day weekend.

On May 27 I presented a paper to my clergy/col.Ieagues support/studygroup using a title from a book by John Sexton, president of NewYork University, with a forward by Doris Kearns Goodwin, pulitzerPrize winning American biographer, hjstorian and political corunen-tator. For a life-long baseball fan and son of an A1l-Americanbaseball player at Ohio State University in the fate 1920, s this $rasa paper that has been writing itself in my alleged brain for years.CFtfin.t il- .rn l..\ fn,1;fp66 f rrncd necoq foll- rrarrr rrarrr nna^LJyLU lJqYEr !!rL ve!y, very g(Juu.

Saint Mark's-in-the-Va11ey Episcopal Church in Los Olivos offeredus an opportunity to participate in thej_r fifth annual- ..CeJ-.larCfassic" on June 28. We coul_d have donated wines then used profitsfrom their sale at auction to benefit saint Michaer- & At1 Angefsor a charlty of indivldual choice. I was srrrnri se.t fh^l- n.,ne of uSparticipated. Maybe in 201-5 |

On June 1, we appreciated ..Jazz Vespers,, with The Rev, d Norm Freemanon vibes, Putter Smith on bass, Theo Saunders on piano, Kendall Kayon drums /percuss ion and Katherine Cash, violinist. On June 2, fenjoyed lunch with Dan Greenwood, Head of School- up pacific ViewDrive and on June 13, I offered the invocation at Harbor Dayschool's eighth grade graduation, on June 16 r went to santa Anafor lunch wi-th Sharon Ellis, president and CEO of Habitat forHumanity of orange county, to tal-k about their .'homes for veterans,,ministries .

Looking back on Sunday af ternoon, June 22, when several- of r.rsgathered in our Memorial Garden of the cood shepherd to cel-ebratethe life of Patricia van Riper, Teri corbet, s mom, r thi-nk of what ayear 2014 was for the Corbets; we buried Cliff,s mother and stsrer.And r am painfully aware that burying betoveds fike sam Mcculroch,Pat McNamee, Bill, Currie, Dotti-e Valentine HulI, Joan Short, NancySattfer, Bob & Nancy Babbe is certainly the most difficul-t dynamicof my "J-ong term pastorate.,, Beginning my twenty-seventh year asyour rector, burying parishioners I adore is the most heart_wrenching challenqe of my ministry.

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In mid-July Don and I drove to Carmel to celebrate my Italian Mama

Efsa's nj-nety-third birthday. Don is her only grandson and theirsis a special relationship.

On Sunday morning, July 27, our focus was on Free WheelchairMissions' ministries. Thej-r 201-4 Special Guest WheelchairRecipient, Corporal Manuel- de Jesus ViIlegas Aviles from El Salvadorspoke with us via an interpreter. I think everyone present wasmoved. That afternoon T made one of my visits to Regent's Pointto celebrate The HoIy Eucharist with Episcopalians there, vlsitparishioners at Sunridge and Windcrest, and preach at their4 : O0 p. m. Vespers worship service.

As Dean of our coastal orange County region of the Episcopal Dioceseof Los Angeles, on August 9I found myself jn a familiar place, WesL

Fourth Street in Santa Ana, staffing an "Episcopal Church Welcomes

You!" booth at the Orange County Gay Pride Day. Our booth was

across the street from the Ronald Reagan Federal- Building andCourthouse which I visit frequently . .. to see my dear friend Andy'also known as United States District Judge Andrew J. Guifford!

Erances & I cruj-sed from Tampa, Fforida, to the Cayman Isl-ands,Carragena, Cofombia, through the Panama Canal-, then to Puntarenas'Costa Rica, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California/Mexico. The most

fascinating time for me was the day (7:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.) goingthrough the Panama Canal. I took David McCulloch's The PathBetween the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canaf 1870-1914and was fascinated to read that book as we cruised through theCanal. Don met us at the Port of Los Angeles-Long Beach where

he works and our August vacation ended with a Saturday nightA' s-at-Angels baseball game .

September was hj.ghlighted by our return to an 8:00 and 10:00 a'm'Sunday worship schedule,' the privilege of offering prayer as a Nancy

sattler was ceLebrated by her family and friends on september 14;

and our Patronal- Festival- celebration of saint Michael & AII Angels',

Day on the last Sunday in Septernber, with Hofy Eucharist and

Baptism, our great story in Revelation L2:7-L2, and hymns including..chri-st, the fair gJ-ory of the holy angels" ("Send thine atchangelMichaef , . , peacemaker bl'essed, may he banish fron us striving and

hatred..."), "Ye watchers and ye holy ones, " Ye holy angels bright, "and more .

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On October 3-4, I went to Sherman Oaks for the 50th reunion of my

Notre Dame High School class of'64, My two best friends from thosedaze were there and our reconnecting was so wonderful that it seemed+.\ ma l- h-al- f i fi-rr rrorrc h:r'i n:cca^ in fho uri nlz nF

The Blessing of the Animals, always one of my favorite Sundays,ih the center of our November ,..Love of Mike,

highlighted the first Sunday in October. That evening, Frances& I 'rent to the Stapfes Center to see and hear Efton John withtickets f won for being a subscri-ber to the Los Angeles Times;so I can no longer say, "f never win anything!"

With a Berkeley friend with whom I have had season tickets to Cal-football games for forty years I traveled to the brand new LeviStadium in Santa Clara on October 25 to see this year, s pac-12 andRose Bowl Champion Oregon Ducks play our Gofden Bears. If you havea chance to go to Levi Stadium or the Giants, baseball park in SanFrancisco, or, of course, the Los Angeles Coliseum or Dodger Scadiumor the Big A, do!

November begins with profundity on the first Sunday as we cefebrateAII Saints/Souls and "Praying Out Goodbyes,, reading the list ofbeloveds who died during the previous year. Norris Battin preachedhj.s sixteenth "Praying Our Goodbyes,, sermon, saying,

"When we move on fron painful goodbyes, we have a good dealin common with the gospel stories of the resurrecEton.And like the disciples / a pentecost eventuaJly energeswhere we can fook back and know that we have finailv endedour qoodbve. "

Norris noted that it j.s ..we_l_Z past time to give someone e_Zsea chance to offer their thoughts about loss and grief .,, SusanCaldwel-l- has vol-unteered to preach in 2015 and I rejoice that"Praying Our Goodbyes,, wi]l continue meaninqfullv.

El-ection Day (November 4) morning was spent with Mark Tabbert,Co-Founding Member of the Orange County Chapter of .'CitizensClimate Lobby: Creating the pofitical WilI for a Sustainableclimate." That group now meets here on the first saturday morningof each month. Mark is a connitted chri-stian who r hope wilr herpus focus attention and energy on "this fragile earth, our isl,andnome" (BCP 370).

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' Will & Annick Klatte took Frances & me to Share Our Sefves'dinner extravaganza on October 7. Will is on the Board of SOS,

a nationally recognized comprehensive care agency with locationsin Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Santa Ana and Lake Forest. I hopeSaint Michael & Af1 Angels wilJ- get more-and-more involved with SOS;

their activities are servjce opportunities I am thinking prayerfullyn€ nrrrcr|i n.r afl-ar ral- i ramanf f rerm qiinan.li,arl, miniql- r\/v! t/u!JefrtY

On Sunday morning November 16, Jim Headley honored our ushers atboth eight and ten o'clock worshlp services. Many beloveds indiverse ministries among us deserve such honoring. I hope otherswiII fof l-ow Jim's lead in takinq initiative to do so.

on Thanksgiving Day my brother David and his partner Laura, bothprofessors at TempIe University in Phifadelphia, were here andjoj-ned Don and Frances and me for the feast Frances prepared.Being with people l love a lot made it a Day of Thanksgiving.

December 5-6 I was in Ontario for my forty-third Diocesanconvention. when Bishop Bruno asked for raised hands from those who

had been to five...ten...Ewenty-five.,.forty Diocesan conventionsand mine was one of the few hands still in the air I felt l-ike a

vet.eran. The highlight of convention 2014 for me was Bishop Bruno'smaking Lynn Headfey an Honorary Canon of our Diocese, quite an honor

as Richard Zevnik and I can attest.

on December 20, Don and Frances & I were near San Diego and Iwasprivileged to preside at the Celebration and Blessing of theMarriage of our nj-ece vanessa. It was the filst such cel-ebrati-onfor the "next" generation in our farnily and a great joy!On December 21 , we celebrated and blessed the marrlages of Tom &

Kati Mowat Nicholson and Jim & Carofe Leavelle Pafda; it was a holyday here.

our Vestry has worked as hard tn 2014 as any Vestry has ever worked.

"A Message From Sai-nt Michaels' Vestry" on page 7 of our December

...Love of Mike puts in writing details of concerns our SeniorWarden, Myrna Ireland, and Junior Warden, Don Sheetz' presentedduring Sunday worship services. Signifj-cant energy is being spentto assure our long-term sustainabitity and growth' And, Vestrymeetings rn 2074 have been fun! ...Yes, they have !

I have already said that susan caldwell is "amazing" and so are ourother Susans and Donnie Lewj-s, our bookkeeper, all amazing' Susan

and her Westrom fanily are not only our sexton (custodian), the

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Westroms are members of our wider Christian cornnunity. And SusanBeechner . . Pfease know that Susan B. i-s the center of aII thatj-s successful- here. Susan 8., Susan C., Susan W, and Donnie L.are invaluable.

I conclude with my favorite illustration in 2014, one I preachedon a Sunday and concLuded my paper titl-ed Basebafl as a Road to Godfor mv clerov/r:ol l e:rrrreq qrrnn6rt / qj- rrr'lrr .rr.rrrn .!n Mav 21 Thie <tnrrr. r,,rJ rLv!y

is about Bob Brenly, current.Ly a Major League Basebalf broadcaster.In 1994 when Frances was ve.ry pregnant with Don we went to a Giants-A's game at Spring Training near Phoenix. I was talking with DaveRighetti at whose wedding I presided here when Bob Brenly approachedand after awhi.Le asked Frances if we knew whether we were to beblessed with a boy or a girl. When she said, ..A boy!,, he said"Raise him rightl" and gifted us wlth baseballs, a bat and a slove

-L1^ ,end cndorrinaI. r . qlrv!9sLLcr!]s

The great day for Bob Brenfy was September 14, 1996, when the ciantsinserted him, a catcherf at third base to replace their regularLhird baseman who was injured. rn the fourth inning, Brenty made anerror on a routine ground ba]1. Four batters fater, he kicked awayanother grounder,. then, while scramblj.ng after the ba11, he rnrewwildly past home plate trying to get the runner there, committingtwo e.rrors on the same play. A few minutes fater he muffed yetanother play to allow a total_ of four unearned runs and to becomethe first player in the twentieth century to hoLd the dubi-ous recordof four errors in one inning. But, in the fifth inning Brenly hita soro home run, and in the seventh i-nning he hit a singre with thebases loaded to tie the score at 6-6. rn the bottom of the ninthwith two out and the count fult, he smashed a massive home run towin the game. He was called .'the 'Comeback pfayer of the year.in one game . "

Brenly's box score card for that day came to three hits in frve atbats, two home runs, four errors, four runs aflowed, and four runsdriven in, i-ncluding the game winning run,

Life is a lot _Iike Bob Brenly, sand the opporLunicy for futurein the fourth j,nning, wait forthe ninth innings for somethingredemption awa.i t s !

game: a mixture of hits and errorsredemption. If something bad happensthe fifth ...and the seventh ...andbetter to come around. yes .

Resne.f f rr'l I rr <rrl-rmi ttade r4 j vqvrrrr L Lev,

Yours, in Chri st-,-"-'>

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Saint Michael & All Angels Episcopal Parish ChurchProgram & Budget(s) for 2014 and 2015

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From savings /reserves

TOTAI, RECEIPTS

ExpensesProqrams

Mission Share FundMission

Cante.rbury I rvineTheological Educat ion

WorshipChoir, music, organ

Chri- stian Educat ionYouth Minl strYAdult C. E.

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lTotal Programs l

Safaries and Benef itsStaffPens ionsBenefits/InsuranceProfessionaf ExpensesPayroll Tax ExPenseblorker's Compensa t ionVisj-ting ClergYlSub-total l

Church and Off iceOfficeTe I ephoneUtilitlesInsurance ( Fire/Casu. )

Buildings and GroundsDebt re6uct ion,/ int ere s t?Misce.Lfaneouss

ISub-tota1]

2 014 Budgetl 2014 Actual

$ 11,420,

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E:q>lanation of Program E Budget(s) for 2014 and 2015:

1. AnnuaL Parish Reports to Annual Parish Meeting on February 2,2014.

2, Includes 2Ol4 pledges (S504,423.80) and prior pledges ($6'786.00).

3. Includes 1,32 pledges in hand (S394.413) including 13 new pledgesand our Stewardship Commission's estimate of what open pledqeswill total ($46,050). 53 parishioners have not pledged for 2015.

4. Our Mission Share Fund pledge to our Diocese is basedon our Norma] Operating Income (NOI) for the prev.ious year.The established goal is 15%, the minimum acceptabl-e is 12?.Our NOI for 2013 was $525,591: 15? is $78,840, 12% is $63,071.

5. A resolut.ion passed by Lhe General Convention of our Episcopalchrrrr-h rrui ries con.rra.'r^l-irrns fo clesi onate 1% of either theirYuavuJarrrranf Pr.l.lr,am r R'r.i.raf .r m.)ql rFaan+- Nlat Onar:f i nat Tncomer!vYrur" s uquysL

f .i gure ava ilabf e.

6. There are no increases in stipend/salary for continuLng staff:Rector, Direccor of Chriscian Education, Parish Secrecary/OfficeManager, Minister of Music, Bookkeeper, Sexton.

'1 . Building Our Faith I l-oans and interest payments

9. "Miscellaneous" expenses under "Church and Office" incl-udes:our audj-t ($715.54)and property taxes ($1,494 ' 10) .

"Busjness exists to make a profit.Our goal- is very different: to Jay down our Lives for ChrisLand for one another. We ate not a business. l{e ate the clzrurch

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"Budgrets are spiritrual doctnents.Tbey say wl,o ,resue christ caJ,J's us to be and what out God wi77s as to do."

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2015 Vestry Election Ba].lot

Option A Block Vote

"I vote for the slate of candidates as presented. " t l

Option B Voting by Candidate

Louise Stover

Anne Warmington

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Deleqates to Diocesan Convention

Steve Duf sonLynn HeadleyM,r r r(r M-/-l r ran

Richard Zevniktl

Representative to Deanery Ten

Rebecca Welch

Alterrrate

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A]'ternates

Norris BattinRebecca Wel-cht

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